On 2010/07/29 13:42 (GMT-0700) tee composed: > On Jul 29, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
>>> It appears that safari does not equate font-size: 100% == 16px; >> If Safari's default has been adjusted to something other than 16px to >> accommodate user requirements, or in any other browser, it shouldn't. There's >> _no_ valid point in assuming any particular px size as a default size. > All browsers in my machine use default font size, because I find this is the > only way I could make websites render more consistently. Used to have 2px > extra large in all my browsers, it was very bad as I forgot about it, and a > number of sites I did, the font sizes turned out much smaller in clients' > machines. If you don't either: 1-have multiple browsers and/or profiles each with a multiplicity of default sizes set, or 2-constantly change the defaults in the only/few browser(s) you use, then you're testing inadequately for the way browsers are built by their developers and expected to be used by real users. Whether initial browser defaults are adequate for any particular environment depends on too many factors to expect no one to change them or need to change them. The web isn't paper. Paper design paradigms (e.g. consistence of mere appearance) are inappropriate for web design. On 2010/07/29 16:35 (GMT-0400) tee composed: > em only (width)- I forgot the correct link in my original post. > http://greensho.nexcess.net/em-vs-px/em-width2.html > It has nothing to do with Corbel font. > font: normal 16px/1.5em Arial, sans-serif > http://greensho.nexcess.net/em-vs-px/em-width3.html > font: normal 100%/1.5em Arial, sans-serif > http://greensho.nexcess.net/em-vs-px/em-width4.html > font: normal 1em/1.5em Arial, sans-serif > http://greensho.nexcess.net/em-vs-px/em-width5.html > Anybody has a Safari 4 to test on? I don't seen any difference on http://greensho.nexcess.net/em-vs-px/em-width.html between Safari 4.0.3 & FF 3.6.8, but I have my old G3 Tiger Mac on a big CRT display where 16px is actually a big enough default to use. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
